Sentences with phrase «run for higher office because»

«They're not thrilled that he's already jumping ship to run for higher office because that's exactly what he campaigned against and what he promised he wouldn't do, be a ladder - climbing career politician,» Petersen said, noting a JTD strategies poll that found half of Missouri voters think Hawley could be using his attorney general career as a stepping stone to higher office.

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So, President Obama's increase in giving coincident with his running for higher office is to be spun as a crass political move, but Santorum's failure to increase his giving while he runs for higher office is be lauded, because when caught he expresses that he needs to «do better», and thus «takes it seriously».

Let's continue to take a closer look at candidates running for office, and those already elected to office, because to fix the problem of corruption in high places we need people of good character serving the people of these United States.

Chuck Schumer is clearly the one that doesn't have anything to worry about because he still has, among all the politicians in New York that are in office and running for re-election, he's the one who has the highest rating of favorability.

It's a landslide because it proves that our strategy — to find strong progressive local leaders and help them run for higher office — works.

Gov. Rick Scott is leaving office due to term limits, but Ballard expects he'll run for U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson and beat him because the governor is better known, has higher approval ratings and will be better funded.

Afterwards, Legislature Chair John Mills said Loughran is only opposing longer terms because he's running for higher office.

And I will note I am picking on him in part because of his stated desire to potentially run for the congressional seat — a promotion to a higher office with more impact on the lives of an even greater number of Americans.

Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types of cases her office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama school district offering advanced courses at its high schools that served primarily white students, but not at the high school that served virtually all of its black students; California district employees ignoring sexual assault cases because they considered them part of their Latino students» «urban culture.»

Having said that, the pound hit the ground running as bulls began bidding the pound higher when the new trading week opened, thanks to news over the weekend that Theresa May plans to reshuffle her cabinet in order to have firmer control in government, as well as rumors making the rounds at the time that the U.K. office for National Statistics (ONS) will supposedly issue corrections because it made a mistake when calculating the U.K.'s unit labor costs.